From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM patches in 2.6.4-rc1-mm2
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:30:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303193025.68a16dc4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40469E50.6090401@matchmail.com>
Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/
> >
> > - More VM tweaks and tuneups
>
> Running 2.6.3-lofft-snsus-264rc1mm2vm (nfsd loff_t, sunrpc locking & -mm
> VM patches). Seems to be working well.
OK, good.
> Most of the previous 2.6 kernels I was running on these servers would be
> lightly hitting swap by now. This definitely looks better to me.
It sounds worse to me. "Lightly hitting swap" is good. It gets rid of stuff,
freeing up physical memory.
But I do not see a lot of difference here. The 900MB desktop machine is
300M into swap after 24 hours. That's usual.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-04 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-03 4:15 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 11:32 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 J.A. Magallon
2004-03-03 18:46 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Adrian Bunk
2004-03-03 16:15 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-03-03 22:33 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2004-03-04 0:52 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Andrew Morton
2004-03-04 3:11 ` VM patches in 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 Mike Fedyk
2004-03-04 3:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-04 3:57 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-10 8:20 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-10 8:36 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-10 18:57 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-10 23:51 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-11 0:17 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-11 0:25 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-05 17:54 ` 2.6.4-rc1-mm[12] - dm_any_congested issues Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-06 3:09 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
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